Description
Product ID: | 9780823270675 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | The Alchemy of Empire |
Subtitle: | Abject Materials and the Technologies of Colonialism |
Authors: | Author: Rajani Sudan |
Page Count: | 232 |
Subjects: | Literary studies: general, Literary studies: general, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, Social & cultural history, Colonialism & imperialism, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Ireland, English, c 1700 to c 1800 |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The Alchemy of Empire unravels the non-European origins of Enlightenment science. Focusing on the abject materials of empire-building, this study traces the genealogies of substances like mud, mortar, ice, and paper, and forms of knowledge like inoculation, arguing that East India Company employees deployed the paradigm of alchemy in order to make sense of the new worlds they confronted. |
Imprint Name: | Fordham University Press |
Publisher Name: | Fordham University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2016-06-01 |